Brazil (1985)
Directed by Terry Gilliam · Cinematography by Roger Pratt
R132 min66 frames
ComedyScience Fiction
It's only a state of mind.
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What is Brazil about?
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, the film stars Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, and Kim Greist.
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What does the cinematography of Brazil look like?
Across 66 sampled frames, Brazil builds its coverage from medium shots (38% of the sample), with wide compositions (29%) carrying much of the rest. Low angles recur throughout. Cinematographer Roger Pratt keeps 71% of it in soft, low-key light. 71% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame.
What is the color palette of Brazil?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Brazil (1985) are #2f2e2d, #4d4f4e, #110f0e, #d1d1d0, #777370, #8b8d8e — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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